Five letters from Elmer Rehnberg, an American WWI soldier to his cousin Ella in Chicago.

January 1918: Private Rehnberg writes about the painful vaccination process he is undergoing as well as about KP duty. Still, he says, "there is nothing that can beat this life for a young fellow."

October 1918: Corporal Rehnberg describes long weeks of driving trucks in France, of which he writes: "I sure like this country nit, and the time of my return comes not to[o] soon. This is a great country for a person to die in but I won't be caught fooling around here very long." As for the "French dolls", Rehnberg proclaims, "I would give just about twenty dollars for a half hour talk with a real American girl."

November 1918: Rehnberg tells his cousin Ella on November 12, "When the armistice was signed people went wild with the news."

January 1919: On New Year's Day, 1919 Rehnberg expresses a soldier's homesickness and weariness: "Not me alone but our whole company is blue. We have worked hard during our stay[,] been in the big drives and worked like (hell) with not a bit of enjoyment or rest. . . . Two of them are sitting with their girls' pictures in their hands ready to burst in tears."

March 1919: Rehnberg boasts of having been all over France and to Italy as well as having seen the Pyrenees and the Alps. "I sure have gotten to be some motor man since I have been over here. Driven and can drive anything with four wheels and a gasone motor." He earns more money than high-ranking French officers but is "so tired of these Frog mad[e]moiselles."